Kiratiana Freelon

Aug 30, 2024 | okayafrica.com | Shalom Esene |Kiratiana Freelon

Top 11 African Beauty Bloggers You Need to Follow on YouTubeAfrican YouTubers are among the biggest beauty influencers in the world. Here are our favorite beauty channels, which you should follow.

Jul 30, 2024 | thegrio.com | Kiratiana Freelon

Editor’s note: The following article is an op-ed, and the views expressed are the author’s own. Read more opinions on theGrio. The gymnast who Simone Biles fears the most is a Black woman from Brazil — Rebeca Andrade. “Rebeca Andrade. She scares me the most,” Biles said in her documentary, “Simone Biles Rising.”Andrade, 25, finished second to Biles in the all-around at the 2023 world championships. But she topped Biles in the vault.

Jun 15, 2024 | theguardian.com | Kiratiana Freelon

Edsiley da Encarnação’s wooden stilt house stands mere steps from the ruins of an old sugar plantation on the African island of São Tomé. What remains of the 16th-century building, strategically built near a freshwater source and the sea, lies hidden among trees. Vines encircle stone walls. “Everyone always says that people died there and that it’s haunted,” said Da Encarnação, 24, who studies business at the University of São Tomé and Príncipe.

Aug 14, 2023 | kiratiana.substack.com | Kiratiana Freelon

Before moving to Brazil eight years ago, I embarked upon a series of interviews to understand Black Brazil. I asked every person I interviewed (academics, Brazilians, expats) one question:Thanks for reading Coisa de Preto ! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. The most cited thing was quotas—affirmative action for Afro-Brazilians to attend public universities.

Jul 31, 2023 | blackcatholicmessenger.com | Kiratiana Freelon |Nathaniel Tinner

Sometimes the truth hits so hard that it changes your life forever. For the then 23-year-old Franciscan friar David Raimundo dos Santos, the exact day of truth was May 13, 1976—eighty-eight years after Brazil had become the last country in the Americas to abolish chattel slavery. Santos, popularly called “Frei David,” was attending a Catholic seminary in a small city outside of São Paulo.